We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

quote by Charles Hermite
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Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

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